Thank you Robert for your feedback. I'm also sorry if my previous mail was urging explicit feedback - I understand such a request goes against the "lazy consensus" practice in Apache. I'd be grateful to hear thoughts or simply +1 / -1 / +-0 from developers who are actually affected by this proposal if you are interested.
Thanks, Tomoko 2022年5月10日(火) 9:36 Robert Muir <[email protected]>: > On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 7:59 PM Tomoko Uchida > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Also, I have a great deal to be concerned about "what active > committers/contributors on Lucene actually think of it". > > > > I have a couple thoughts. > > 1. What percentage of contributions are done via pull requests versus > via patch files these days? I'm always happy to commit a patch, but I > just don't see them. I'm still happy to commit a patch sent to the > mailing list. I feel that requiring JIRA is just unnecessarily > invoking another tool, another signup process, unnecessary hurdle. If > someone wants to send a patch to the mailing list, e.g. from the user > list as part of a discussion, that's fine. > 2. Realistically, every committer actively merging/committing is using > github today already. This proposal doesn't make their life any more > difficult. They already have their github account setup. It makes life > easier for the *contributor*, which is what I want. > 3. Around concerns of github "censorship" and certain countries, this > doesn't affect public repositories, just private ones. It has to do > with sanctions and money and so on. I see you committed Persian > Stemmer from an Iranian contributor just this morning. This is not a > problem. > 4. Still along these lines, I tested this stuff from behind chinese > great firewall this morning, to have the full experience myself. > lucene.apache.org site is extremely fast, fastly CDN! github.com was a > bit slower to load, but not terrible. Loading up JIRA > (issues.apache.org) was very slow, required both getting and drinking > another coffee. It is some machine out there in hetzner germany, which > may be the issue. At the same time, I think it is unreasonable to ask > infra to "cluster" the JIRA for better access around the world, > because that's absurdly scary from a technical perspective. So I'm > happy if we can streamline the contribution process and make it easier > for folks outside of US and europe. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
